July 15

Pre-1600

 * 484 BC – Dedication of the Temple of Castor and Pollux in ancient Rome
 * 70 – First Jewish–Roman War: Titus and his armies breach the walls of Jerusalem. (17th of Tammuz in the Hebrew calendar).
 * 756 – An Lushan Rebellion: Emperor Xuanzong of Tang is ordered by his Imperial Guards to execute chancellor Yang Guozhong by forcing him to commit suicide or face a mutiny. General An Lushan has other members of the emperor's family killed.
 * 1099 – First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final assault of a difficult siege.
 * 1149 – The reconstructed Church of the Holy Sepulchre is consecrated in Jerusalem.
 * 1207 – King John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop Stephen Langton.
 * 1240 – Swedish–Novgorodian Wars: A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva.
 * 1381 – John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, is hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of King Richard II of England.
 * 1410 – Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War: Battle of Grunwald: The allied forces of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the army of the Teutonic Order.
 * 1482 – Muhammad XII is crowned the twenty-second and last Nasrid king of Granada.

1601–1900

 * 1640 – The first university of Finland, the Royal Academy of Turku, is inaugurated in Turku.
 * 1738 – Baruch Laibov and Alexander Voznitzin are burned alive in St. Petersburg, Russia. Vonitzin had converted to Judaism with Laibov's help, with the consent of Empress Anna Ivanovna.
 * 1741 – Aleksei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
 * 1789 – French Revolution: Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, is named by acclamation Colonel General of the new National Guard of Paris.
 * 1799 – The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign.
 * 1806 – Pike Expedition: United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Bellefontaine near St. Louis, Missouri, to explore the west.
 * 1815 – Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon (1786).
 * 1823 – A fire destroys the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome, Italy.
 * 1834 – The Spanish Inquisition is officially disbanded after nearly 356 years.
 * 1838 – Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The Protestant community reacts with outrage.
 * 1849 – The first air raid in history occurs; Austria launches pilotless balloons against the city of Venice
 * 1862 – American Civil War: The CSS Arkansas, the most effective ironclad on the Mississippi River, battles with Union Navy ships commanded by Admiral David Farragut, severely damaging three ships and sustaining heavy damage herself.
 * 1870 – Reconstruction Era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
 * 1870  – Canadian Confederation: Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories are established from these vast territories.
 * 1888 – The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts, killing approximately 500 people in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.

1901–present

 * 1910 – In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
 * 1916 – In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).
 * 1918 – World War I: The Second Battle of the Marne begins near the River Marne with a German attack.
 * 1920 – Aftermath of World War I: The Parliament of Poland establishes Silesian Voivodeship before the Polish-German plebiscite.
 * 1922 – The Japanese Communist Party is established in Japan.
 * 1927 – Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by Austrian police in Vienna.
 * 1941 – The Holocaust: Nazi Germany begins the deportation of 100,000 Jews from the occupied Netherlands to extermination camps.
 * 1946 – The State of North Borneo, now Sabah, Malaysia, is annexed by the United Kingdom.
 * 1954 – The Boeing 367-80, the prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series, takes its first flight.
 * 1955 – Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
 * 1966 – Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone.
 * 1971 – The United Red Army is founded in Japan.
 * 1974 – In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek junta-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president.
 * 1975 – Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was the last launch of both an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets.
 * 1979 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his "malaise speech".
 * 1983 – An attack at Orly Airport in Paris is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA, leaving eight people dead and 55 injured.
 * 1983  – Nintendo released the Famicom in Japan.
 * 1996 – A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.
 * 1998 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil MP S. Shanmuganathan is killed by a claymore mine.
 * 2002 – "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and possession of explosives during the commission of a felony.
 * 2002  – The Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan sentences British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh to death, and three others suspected of murdering The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl to life.
 * 2003 – AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.
 * 2006 – Twitter, later one of the largest social media platforms in the world, is launched.
 * 2009 – Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashes near Jannatabad, Qazvin, Iran, killing 168.
 * 2009  – Space Shuttle program: Endeavour is launched on STS-127 to complete assembly of the International Space Station's Kibō module.
 * 2012 – South Korean rapper Psy releases his hit single Gangnam Style.
 * 2014 – A train derails on the Moscow Metro, killing at least 24 and injuring more than 160 others.
 * 2016 – Factions of the Turkish Armed Forces attempt a coup.
 * 2018 – France win their second World Cup title, defeating Croatia 4–2.

Pre-1600

 * 980 – Ichijō, Japanese emperor (d. 1011)
 * 1273 – Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and saint (d. 1352)
 * 1353 – Vladimir the Bold, Russian prince (d. 1410)
 * 1359 – Antonio Correr, Italian cardinal (d. 1445)
 * 1442 – Boček IV of Poděbrady, Bohemian nobleman (d. 1496)
 * 1455 – Queen Yun, Korean queen (d. 1482)
 * 1471 – Eskender, Ethiopian emperor (d. 1494)
 * 1478 – Barbara Jagiellon, duchess consort of Saxony and Margravine consort of Meissen (d. 1534)
 * 1573 – Inigo Jones, English architect, designed the Queen's House (d. 1652)
 * 1600 – Jan Cossiers, Flemish painter (d. 1671)

1601–1900

 * 1606 – Rembrandt, Dutch painter and etcher (d. 1669)
 * 1611 – Jai Singh I, maharaja of Jaipur (d. 1667)
 * 1613 – Gu Yanwu, Chinese philologist and geographer (d. 1682)
 * 1631 – Jens Juel, Danish politician and diplomat, Governor-general of Norway (d. 1700)
 * 1631  – Richard Cumberland, English philosopher (d. 1718)
 * 1638 – Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1693)
 * 1704 – August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German bishop and theologian (d. 1792)
 * 1779 – Clement Clarke Moore, American author, poet, and educator (d. 1863)
 * 1793 – Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps, American educator, author, editor (d. 1884)
 * 1796 – Thomas Bulfinch, American mythologist (d. 1867)
 * 1799 – Reuben Chapman, American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of Alabama (d. 1882)
 * 1800 – Sidney Breese, American jurist and politician (d. 1878)
 * 1808 – Henry Edward Manning, English cardinal (d. 1892)
 * 1812 – James Hope-Scott, English lawyer and academic (d. 1873)
 * 1817 – Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, English engineer, designed the Forth Bridge (d. 1898)
 * 1827 – W. W. Thayer American lawyer and politician, 6th Governor of Oregon (d. 1899)
 * 1848 – Vilfredo Pareto, Italian economist and sociologist (d. 1923)
 * 1850 – Frances Xavier Cabrini, Italian-American nun and saint (d. 1917)
 * 1852 – Josef Josephi, Polish-born singer and actor (d. 1920)
 * 1858 – Emmeline Pankhurst, English political activist and suffragist (d. 1928)
 * 1864 – Marie Tempest, English actress and singer (d. 1942)
 * 1865 – Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, Anglo-Irish businessman and publisher, founded the Amalgamated Press (d. 1922)
 * 1865  – Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian-German mathematician and theorist (d. 1945)
 * 1867 – Jean-Baptiste Charcot, French physician and explorer (d. 1936)
 * 1871 – Doppo Kunikida, Japanese journalist, author, and poet (d. 1908)
 * 1880 – Enrique Mosca, Argentinian lawyer and politician (d. 1950)
 * 1883 – Denny Barry Irish Republican died during the 1923 Irish Hunger Strikes (d. 1923)
 * 1887 – Wharton Esherick, American sculptor (d. 1970)
 * 1892 – Walter Benjamin, German philosopher and critic (d. 1940)
 * 1893 – Enid Bennett, Australian-American actress (d. 1969)
 * 1893  – Dick Rauch, American football player and coach (d. 1970)
 * 1894 – Tadeusz Sendzimir, Polish-American engineer (d. 1989)
 * 1899 – Seán Lemass, Irish soldier and politician, 4th Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 1971)

1901–present

 * 1902 – Jean Rey, Belgian lawyer and politician, 2nd President of the European Commission (d. 1983)
 * 1903 – Walter D. Edmonds, American journalist and author (d. 1998)
 * 1903  – K. Kamaraj, Indian journalist and politician (d. 1975)
 * 1904 – Rudolf Arnheim, German-American psychologist and author (d. 2007)
 * 1905 – Dorothy Fields, American songwriter (d. 1974)
 * 1905  – Anita Farra, Italian actress (d. 2008)
 * 1906 – R. S. Mugali, Indian poet and academic (d. 1993)
 * 1906  – Rudolf Uhlenhaut, English-German engineer (d. 1989)
 * 1909 – Jean Hamburger, French physician and surgeon (d. 1992)
 * 1911 – Edward Shackleton, Baron Shackleton, English geographer and politician, Secretary of State for Air (d. 1994)
 * 1913 – Cowboy Copas, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1963)
 * 1913  – Hammond Innes, English journalist and author (d. 1998)
 * 1913  – Abraham Sutzkever, Russian poet and author (d. 2010)
 * 1914 – Birabongse Bhanudej, Thai racing driver and sailor, member of the Thai royal family (d. 1985)
 * 1914  – Akhtar Hameed Khan, Pakistani economist, scholar, and activist (d. 1999)
 * 1914  – Howard Vernon, Swiss-French actor (d. 1996)
 * 1915 – Albert Ghiorso, American chemist and academic (d. 2010)
 * 1915  – Kashmir Singh Katoch, Indian army officer (d. 2007)
 * 1916 – Sumner Gerard, American politician and diplomat (d. 2005)
 * 1917 – Robert Conquest, English-American historian, poet, and academic (d. 2015)
 * 1917  – Joan Roberts, American actress and singer (d. 2012)
 * 1917  – Nur Muhammad Taraki, Afghan journalist and politician (d. 1979)
 * 1918 – Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
 * 1918  – Brenda Milner, English-Canadian neuropsychologist and academic
 * 1919 – Fritz Langanke, German lieutenant (d. 2012)
 * 1919  – Iris Murdoch, Anglo-Irish British novelist and philosopher (d. 1999)
 * 1921 – Henri Colpi, Swiss-French director and screenwriter (d. 2006)
 * 1921  – Robert Bruce Merrifield, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
 * 1922 – Leon M. Lederman, American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)
 * 1922  – Jean-Pierre Richard, French writer (d. 2019)
 * 1924 – Jeremiah Denton, American admiral and politician (d. 2014)
 * 1924  – Marianne Bernadotte, Swedish actress and philanthropist
 * 1925 – Philip Carey, American actor (d. 2009)
 * 1925  – Taylor Hardwick, American architect, designed Haydon Burns Library and Friendship Fountain Park (d. 2014)
 * 1925  – D. A. Pennebaker, American documentary filmmaker (d. 2019)
 * 1925  – Evan Hultman, American politician
 * 1925  – Antony Carbone, American actor (d. 2020)
 * 1925  – Pandel Savic, American football player (d. 2018)
 * 1926 – Driss Chraïbi, Moroccan-French journalist and author (d. 2007)
 * 1926  – Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentinian general and politician, 44th President of Argentina (d. 2003)
 * 1926  – Raymond Gosling, English physicist and academic (d. 2015)
 * 1926  – Sir John Graham, 4th Baronet, English diplomat (d. 2019)
 * 1927 – Nan Martin, American actress (d. 2010)
 * 1927  – Carmen Zapata, American actress (d. 2014)
 * 1927  – Håkon Brusveen, Norwegian cross-country skier (d. 2021)
 * 1928 – Carl Woese, American microbiologist and biophysicist (d. 2012)
 * 1928  – Viramachaneni Vimla Devi, Indian parliamentarian (d. 1967)
 * 1929 – Charles Anthony, American tenor and actor (d. 2012)
 * 1929  – Francis Bebey, Cameroonian-French guitarist (d. 2001)
 * 1929  – Ian Stewart, Scottish racing driver (d. 2017)
 * 1930 – Jacques Derrida, Algerian-French philosopher and academic (d. 2004)
 * 1930  – Richard Garneau, Canadian journalist and sportscaster (d. 2013)
 * 1930  – Stephen Smale, American mathematician and computer scientist
 * 1930  – Einosuke Akiya, Japanese Buddhist leader
 * 1931 – Clive Cussler, American archaeologist and author (d. 2020)
 * 1931  – Joanna Merlin, American actress and casting director (d. 2023)
 * 1931  – Jacques-Yvan Morin, Canadian lawyer and politician, Deputy Premier of Quebec (d. 2023)
 * 1932 – Ed Litzenberger, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2010)
 * 1933 – Guido Crepax, Italian author and illustrator (d. 2003)
 * 1933  – M. T. Vasudevan Nair, Indian author and screenwriter
 * 1934 – Harrison Birtwistle, English composer and academic (d. 2022)
 * 1934  – Eva Krížiková, Czech actress (d. 2020)
 * 1934  – Risto Jarva, Finnish director and producer (d. 1977)
 * 1935 – Donn Clendenon, American baseball player and lawyer (d. 2005)
 * 1935  – Alex Karras, American football player, wrestler, and actor (d. 2012)
 * 1935  – Ken Kercheval, American actor and director (d. 2019)
 * 1936 – George Voinovich, American lawyer and politician, 65th Governor of Ohio (d. 2016)
 * 1937 – Prabhash Joshi, Indian journalist (d. 2009)
 * 1938 – Bill Alsup, American racing driver (d. 2016)
 * 1938  – Ernie Barnes, American football player, actor, and painter (d. 2009)
 * 1938  – Carmen Callil, Australian publisher, founded Virago Press (d. 2022)
 * 1938  – Barry Goldwater, Jr., American lawyer and politician
 * 1939 – Aníbal Cavaco Silva, Portuguese economist and politician, 19th President of the Portuguese Republic
 * 1940 – Chris Cord, American racing driver (d. 2022)
 * 1940  – Denis Héroux, Canadian director and producer (d. 2015)
 * 1940  – Ronald Gene Simmons, American sergeant and convicted murderer (d. 1990)
 * 1940  – Robert Winston, English surgeon, academic, and politician
 * 1941 – Livia Gouverneur, Venezuelan communist (d.1961)
 * 1942 – Vivian Malone Jones, American civil rights activist (d. 2005)
 * 1943 – Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Northern Irish astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic
 * 1944 – Millie Jackson, American singer-songwriter
 * 1944  – Jan-Michael Vincent, American actor (d. 2019)
 * 1944  – Nigel Williams, English conservator (d. 1992)
 * 1945 – David Arthur Granger, Guyanese politician, 9th President of Guyana
 * 1945  – Peter Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1945  – Jürgen Möllemann, German soldier and politician, Vice-Chancellor of Germany (d. 2003)
 * 1946 – Linda Ronstadt, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
 * 1946  – Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan of Brunei
 * 1947 – Lydia Davis, American short story writer, novelist, and essayist
 * 1947  – Pridiyathorn Devakula, Thai economist and politician, Thai Minister of Finance
 * 1947  – Roky Erickson, American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 2019)
 * 1948 – Twinkle, English singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
 * 1948  – Dimosthenis Kourtovik, Greek anthropologist and critic
 * 1948  – Artimus Pyle, American rock drummer and songwriter
 * 1949 – Carl Bildt, Swedish politician and diplomat, Prime Minister of Sweden
 * 1949  – Trevor Horn, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
 * 1949  – Richard Russo, American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter
 * 1950 – Colin Barnett, Australian economist and politician, 29th Premier of Western Australia
 * 1950  – Arianna Huffington, Greek-American journalist and publisher
 * 1951 – Gregory Isaacs, Jamaican-English singer-songwriter (d. 2010)
 * 1951  – Jesse Ventura, American wrestler, actor, and politician, 38th Governor of Minnesota
 * 1952 – John Cleland, British racing driver
 * 1952  – Celia Imrie, English actress
 * 1952  – Terry O'Quinn, American actor
 * 1952  – David Pack, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
 * 1952  – Marky Ramone, American drummer and songwriter
 * 1952  – Johnny Thunders, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1991)
 * 1953 – Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haitian priest and politician, 49th President of Haiti
 * 1953  – Sultanah Haminah, Malaysian royal consort
 * 1953  – Mohamad Shahrum Osman, Malaysian politician
 * 1953  – Alicia Bridges, American singer-songwriter
 * 1954 – John Ferguson, Australian rugby league player
 * 1954  – Giorgos Kaminis, American-Greek lawyer and politician, 78th Mayor of Athens
 * 1954  – Mario Kempes, Argentinian footballer and manager
 * 1956 – Ashoke Sen, Indian theoretical physicist and string theorist
 * 1956  – Ian Curtis, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1980)
 * 1956  – Nicholas Harberd, British botanist, educator, and academician
 * 1956  – Barry Melrose, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster
 * 1956  – Steve Mortimer, Australian rugby league player, coach, and administrator
 * 1956  – Joe Satriani, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1956  – Wayne Taylor, South African racing driver
 * 1958 – Gary Heale, English footballer and coach
 * 1958  – Mac Thornberry, American lawyer and politician
 * 1959 – Vincent Lindon, French actor, director, and screenwriter
 * 1961 – Lolita Davidovich, Canadian actress
 * 1961  – Jean-Christophe Grangé, French journalist and screenwriter
 * 1961  – Forest Whitaker, American actor
 * 1962 – Nikos Filippou, Greek basketball player and manager
 * 1962  – Michelle Ford, Australian swimmer
 * 1963 – Brigitte Nielsen, Danish-Italian actress
 * 1963  – Steve Thomas, English-Canadian ice hockey player and coach
 * 1965 – Alistair Carmichael, Scottish lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Scotland
 * 1965  – Gero Miesenböck, Austrian neuroscientist and educator
 * 1965  – David Miliband, English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
 * 1966 – Jason Bonham, English singer-songwriter and drummer
 * 1966  – Irène Jacob, French-Swiss actress
 * 1967 – Adam Savage, American actor and special effects designer
 * 1967  – Elbert West, American singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
 * 1968 – Eddie Griffin, American comedian, actor, and producer
 * 1969 – Ain Tammus, Estonian footballer and coach
 * 1970 – Tarkan Gözübüyük, Turkish bass player and producer
 * 1972 – Scott Foley, American actor
 * 1973 – Brian Austin Green, American actor
 * 1973 – Buju Banton, Jamaican singer
 * 1975 – Cherry, American wrestler and manager
 * 1975  – Danny Law, English cricketer
 * 1975  – Ben Pepper, Australian basketball player
 * 1976 – Steve Cunningham, American boxer
 * 1976  – Marco Di Vaio, Italian footballer
 * 1976  – Diane Kruger, German actress and model
 * 1976  – Gabriel Iglesias, Mexican-American comedian and voice actor
 * 1977 – D. J. Kennington, Canadian racing driver
 * 1977  – André Nel, South African cricketer
 * 1977  – Lana Parrilla, American actress
 * 1977  – John St. Clair, American football player
 * 1977  – Ray Toro, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1978 – Miguel Olivo, Dominican baseball player
 * 1979 – Laura Benanti, American actress and singer
 * 1979  – Alexander Frei, Swiss footballer
 * 1979  – Edda Garðarsdóttir, Icelandic footballer
 * 1979  – Renata Kučerová, Czech tennis player
 * 1980 – Reggie Abercrombie, American baseball player
 * 1980  – Jonathan Cheechoo, Canadian ice hockey player
 * 1980  – Julia Perez, Indonesian singer and actress (d. 2017)
 * 1981 – Alou Diarra, French footballer
 * 1981  – Petros Klampanis, Greek bassist and composer
 * 1981  – Marius Stankevičius, Lithuanian footballer
 * 1982 – Julien Canal, French racing driver
 * 1982  – Neemia Tialata, New Zealand rugby player
 * 1982  – Aída Yéspica, Venezuelan model and actress
 * 1983 – Salvatore Iovino, American racing driver
 * 1983  – Nelson Merlo, Brazilian racing driver
 * 1983  – Heath Slater, American wrestler
 * 1984 – Angelo Siniscalchi, Italian footballer
 * 1984  – Veronika Velez-Zuzulová, Slovak skier
 * 1986 – Tyler Kennedy, Canadian ice hockey player
 * 1986 – Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, American actor
 * 1989 – Alisa Kleybanova, Russian tennis player
 * 1989  – Anthony Randolph, American basketball player
 * 1990 – Olly Alexander, English singer and actor
 * 1990  – Zach Bogosian, American ice hockey player
 * 1990  – Damian Lillard, American basketball player
 * 1990  – Tyler Young, American racing driver
 * 1991 – Danilo, Brazilian footballer
 * 1991  – Derrick Favors, American basketball player
 * 1991  – Evgeny Tishchenko, Russian boxer
 * 1991  – Nuria Párrizas Díaz, Spanish tennis player
 * 1992 – Tobias Harris, American basketball player
 * 1992  – Wayde van Niekerk, South African sprinter
 * 1993 – Håvard Nielsen, Norwegian footballer
 * 1993  – Harrison Rhodes, American racing driver
 * 1993  – Masataka Yoshida, Japanese baseball player
 * 1996 – Vivianne Miedema, Dutch football player
 * 1997 – Jil Teichmann, Swiss tennis player
 * 1998 – Noah Gragson, American racing driver
 * 1999 – Mohamed Sobhy, Egyptian footballer
 * 2005 – JuJu Watkins, American basketball player
 * 2008 – Iain Armitage, American actor

Pre-1600

 * 756 – Yang Guifei, consort of Xuan Zong (b. 719)
 * 998 – Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī, Persian mathematician and astronomer (b. 940)
 * 1015 – Vladimir the Great, Grand prince of Kievan Rus' (b. c. 958)
 * 1274 – Bonaventure, Italian bishop and saint (b. 1221)
 * 1291 – Rudolf I of Germany (b. 1218)
 * 1299 – King Eric II of Norway (b. c. 1268)
 * 1381 – John Ball, English Lollard priest
 * 1388 – Agnes of Durazzo, titular Latin empress consort of Constantinople (b. 1313)
 * 1397 – Catherine of Henneberg, German ruler (b. c. 1334)
 * 1406 – William, Duke of Austria
 * 1410 – Ulrich von Jungingen, German Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (b. 1360)
 * 1445 – Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scotland
 * 1542 – Lisa del Giocondo, subject of Leonardo da Vinci's painting Mona Lisa (b. 1479)
 * 1544 – René of Châlon (b. 1519)
 * 1571 – Shimazu Takahisa, Japanese daimyō (b. 1514)

1601–1900

 * 1609 – Annibale Carracci, Italian painter and illustrator (b. 1560)
 * 1614 – Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, French soldier, historian and author (b. 1540)
 * 1655 – Girolamo Rainaldi, Italian architect (b. 1570)
 * 1685 – James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, Dutch-born English general and claimant to the throne, executed (b. 1649)
 * 1750 – Vasily Tatishchev, Russian ethnographer and politician (b. 1686)
 * 1765 – Charles-André van Loo, French painter (b. 1705)
 * 1767 – Michael Bruce, Scottish poet and composer (b. 1746)
 * 1789 – Jacques Duphly, French harpsichord player and composer (b. 1715)
 * 1828 – Jean-Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (b. 1741)
 * 1839 – Winthrop Mackworth Praed, English poet and politician (b. 1802)
 * 1844 – Claude Charles Fauriel, French philologist and historian (b. 1772)
 * 1851 – Anne-Marie Javouhey, French nun, founder of the Sisters of St Joseph of Cluny (b. 1779)
 * 1851  – Juan Felipe Ibarra, Argentinian general and politician (b. 1787)
 * 1857 – Carl Czerny, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1791)
 * 1858 – Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Russian painter (b. 1806)
 * 1883 – General Tom Thumb, American circus performer (b. 1838)
 * 1885 – Rosalía de Castro, Spanish author and poet (b. 1837)
 * 1890 – Gottfried Keller, Swiss author, poet and playwright (b. 1819)
 * 1898 – Jean-Baptiste Salpointe, French-American archbishop (b. 1825)

1901–present

 * 1904 – Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short story writer (b. 1860)
 * 1919 – Emil Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
 * 1929 – Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1874)
 * 1930 – Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1845)
 * 1930  – Leonora Barry, Irish-born American social activist (b. 1849)
 * 1931 – Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian-German economist and mathematician (b. 1868)
 * 1932 – Bahíyyih Khánum, Iranian writer and leader in the Baha'i faith (b. 1846)
 * 1932  – Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven, South African poet and politician (b. 1873)
 * 1933 – Irving Babbitt, American scholar, critic, and academic (b. 1865)
 * 1933  – Freddie Keppard, American cornet player (b. 1890)
 * 1940 – Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist and physician (b. 1857)
 * 1940  – Robert Wadlow, American giant, 8"11' 271 cm (b. 1918)
 * 1942 – Wenceslao Vinzons, Filipino lawyer and politician (b. 1910)
 * 1944 – Marie-Victorin Kirouac, Canadian botanist and academic (b. 1885)
 * 1946 – Razor Smith, English cricketer and coach (b. 1877)
 * 1947 – Walter Donaldson, American soldier and songwriter (b. 1893)
 * 1948 – John J. Pershing, American general (b. 1860)
 * 1953 – Geevarghese Mar Ivanios, Indian archbishop, founded the Order of the Imitation of Christ (b. 1882)
 * 1957 – James M. Cox, American publisher and politician, 46th Governor of Ohio (b. 1870)
 * 1957  – Vasily Maklakov, a Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1869)
 * 1959 – Ernest Bloch, Swiss-American composer and academic (b. 1880)
 * 1959  – Vance Palmer, Australian author and critic (b. 1885)
 * 1960 – Set Persson, Swedish politician (b. 1897)
 * 1960  – Lawrence Tibbett, American singer and actor (b. 1896)
 * 1961 – John Edward Brownlee, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Premier of Alberta (b. 1884)
 * 1961  – Nina Bari, Russian mathematician (b. 1901)
 * 1965 – Francis Cherry, American lawyer and politician, 35th Governor of Arkansas (b. 1908)
 * 1966 – Seyfi Arkan, Turkish architect (b. 1903)
 * 1969 – Grace Hutchins, American labor reformer and researcher (b. 1885)
 * 1974 – Christine Chubbuck, American journalist (b. 1944)
 * 1976 – Paul Gallico, American journalist and author (b. 1897)
 * 1977 – Donald Mackay, Australian businessman and activist (b. 1933)
 * 1979 – Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Mexican academic and politician, 29th President of Mexico (b. 1911)
 * 1981 – Frédéric Dorion, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1898)
 * 1982 – Bill Justis, American saxophonist, songwriter, and producer (b. 1926)
 * 1986 – Billy Haughton, American harness racer and trainer (b. 1923)
 * 1988 – Eleanor Estes, American librarian, author, and illustrator (b. 1906)
 * 1989 – Laurie Cunningham, English footballer (b. 1956)
 * 1990 – Zaim Topčić, Yugoslav and Bosnian writer (b. 1920)
 * 1990  – Margaret Lockwood, English actress (b. 1916)
 * 1990  – Omar Abu Risha, Syrian poet and diplomat, 4th Syrian Ambassador to the United States (b. 1910)
 * 1991 – Bert Convy, American actor, singer, and game show host (b. 1933)
 * 1992 – Hammer DeRoburt, Nauruan educator and politician, 1st President of Nauru (b. 1922)
 * 1992  – Chingiz Mustafayev, Azerbaijani journalist and author (b. 1960)
 * 1997 – Justinas Lagunavičius, Lithuanian basketball player (b. 1924)
 * 1997  – Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer, founded Versace (b. 1946)
 * 1998 – S. Shanmuganathan, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1960)
 * 2000 – Louis Quilico, Canadian opera singer and educator (b. 1925)
 * 2001 – C. Balasingham, Sri Lankan lawyer and civil servant (b. 1917)
 * 2003 – Roberto Bolaño, Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet, and essayist (b. 1953)
 * 2003  – Elisabeth Welch, American actress and singer (b. 1904)
 * 2006 – Robert H. Brooks, American businessman, founder of Hooters and Naturally Fresh, Inc. (b. 1937)
 * 2006  – Alireza Shapour Shahbazi, Iranian archaeologist and academic (b. 1942)
 * 2008 – György Kolonics, Hungarian canoe racer (b. 1972)
 * 2010 – James E. Akins, American politician and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (b. 1926)
 * 2011 – Friedrich Wilhelm Schnitzler, German landowner and politician (b. 1928)
 * 2011  – Googie Withers, British-Australian actress (b. 1917)
 * 2012 – Boris Cebotari, Moldovan footballer (b. 1975)
 * 2012  – Tsilla Chelton, Israeli-French actress (b. 1919)
 * 2012  – Grant Feasel, American football player (b. 1960)
 * 2012  – David Fraser, English general (b. 1920)
 * 2012  – Celeste Holm, American actress and singer (b. 1917)
 * 2012  – Yoichi Takabayashi, Japanese director and screenwriter (b. 1931)
 * 2013 – Ninos Aho, Syrian-American poet and activist (b. 1945)
 * 2013  – Henry Braden, American lawyer and politician (b. 1944)
 * 2013  – Tom Greenwell, American lawyer and judge (b. 1956)
 * 2013  – Earl Gros, American football player (b. 1940)
 * 2013  – Noël Lee, Chinese-American pianist and composer (b. 1924)
 * 2013  – Meskerem Legesse, Ethiopian runner (b. 1986)
 * 2013  – John T. Riedl, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1962)
 * 2014 – Óscar Acosta, Honduran author, poet, and diplomat (b. 1933)
 * 2014  – James MacGregor Burns, American historian, political scientist, and author (b. 1918)
 * 2014  – Edward Perl, American neuroscientist and academic (b. 1926)
 * 2014  – Robert A. Roe, American soldier and politician (b. 1924)
 * 2015 – Masahiko Aoki, Japanese-American economist and academic (b. 1938)
 * 2015  – Wan Li, Chinese politician, 4th Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1916)
 * 2015  – Aubrey Morris, British actor (b. 1926)
 * 2015  – Dave Somerville, Canadian singer (b. 1933)
 * 2017 – Martin Landau, American film and television actor (b. 1928)
 * 2021 – Peter R. de Vries, Dutch investigative journalist and crime reporter (b. 1956)

Holidays and observances

 * Bon Festival (Kantō region, Japan)
 * Christian feast day:
 * Abhai (Syriac Orthodox Church)
 * Anne-Marie Javouhey
 * Bernhard II, Margrave of Baden-Baden
 * Bonaventure
 * Dispersion of the Apostles (formerly by the Catholic Church)
 * Donald of Ogilvy
 * Edith of Polesworth
 * Edith of Wilton
 * Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor
 * Plechelm
 * Quriaqos and Julietta (Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox)
 * Swithun
 * Vladimir the Great (Eastern Orthodox; Catholic Church)
 * July 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
 * Earliest day on which Birthday of Don Luis Muñoz Rivera can fall, while July 21 is the latest; celebrated on the third Monday of July. (Puerto Rico)
 * Earliest day on which Galla Bayramy can fall, while July 21 is the latest; celebrated on the third Sunday of July. (Turkmenistan)
 * Earliest day on which Marine Day can fall, while July 21 is the latest; celebrated on the third Monday of July. (Japan)
 * Earliest day on which President's Day can fall, while July 21 is the latest; celebrated on the third Monday of July. (Botswana)
 * Elderly Men Day (Kiribati)
 * EU Day for the Victims of the Global Climate Crisis (European Union, worldwide)
 * Festival of Santa Rosalia (Palermo, Sicily)
 * Sultan's Birthday (Brunei Darussalam)
 * Statehood Day (Ukraine)